Photos of the Day: July 6

In today's photos, Spain celebrates the San Fermin festival, a Somalian boy waits for aid at a refugee camp, a dust cloud looms over Phoenix, and more.

Updated July 6, 2011 3:48 p.m. ET

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JUBILANT: A man hoisted aloft by friends was showered with wine Wednesday at the start of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain. The annual festival best known for its daily running of the bulls kicked off with the traditional "Chupinazo" rocket launch; it runs until July 14.
Eloy Alonso/Reuters…

DEADLY VIOLENCE: A relative of a victim of political violence mourned over the body in an ambulance at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in Karachi Wednesday. Violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions in Pakistan's biggest city killed at least 24 people overnight, officials said.
Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images…

PATIENCE: Four-year-old Bashir Hassan, right, waited with his family Tuesday for a bus that would take them to a processing facility in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. The boy, his brothers and their mother arrived 11 days ago after walking two weeks from their home in Somalia.
Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images…

UP IN ARMS: Bangladeshi police arrested Jainul Abdin Farroque, the chief parliamentary whip of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in Dhaka Wednesday during a strike against a constitutional amendment the opposition says will let the government rig elections. Mr. Farroque was hospitalized.
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BIRTHDAY SPAT: A Tibetan exile tussled with Nepalese police officers as they tried to stop her from entering a birthday celebration for the Dalai Lama in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday. Nepalese authorities were concerned that the spiritual leader's birthday gathering would turn anti-Chinese.
Binod Joshi/Associated Press…

ON THE TOUR: Cyclist Mark Cavendish, center, of Britain made a final sprint against Jose Rojas, left, of Spain and Philippe Gilbert, right, of Belgium in the fifth stage of the Tour de France, between Carhaix and Cap Frehel Wednesday. Mr. Cavendish won the stage.
Denis Balibouse/Reuters…

GOING NOWHERE: Policemen in Hyderabad, India, held their ground Wednesday as students demanding the creation of a new state threw stones at them. More than a dozen lawmakers have resigned from the Parliament to press for the creation of a new state, Telangana, from Andhra Pradesh.
Mahesh Kumar A./Associated Press…

NASCENT ANGER: Military policemen were visible through broken car windows at a court complex in Suez, Egypt, Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters pelted the security headquarters with rocks after a court decision upholding the release of seven policemen accused of murders during Egypt's uprising.
Asmaa Waguih/Reuters…

CLOSE THE WINDOWS: A giant dust storm rolled over Phoenix Tuesday evening. The wall of dust drastically reduced visibility, briefly halting all flights in and out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. The air on Wednesday in Phoenix was a hazy shade of brown; dirt coated cars and buildings.
Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic/Associated Press…

GOOD SKIING? A mound of potash loomed over an employee in the warehouse of K+S AG potash mine in Unterbreizbach, Germany.
Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg…

WORKING ON THE COAL LINE: Men cleared coal Wednesday from a train track at a rail yard on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Amit Dave/Reuters…